Review: Choosing to Care: A Century of Childcare and Social Reform in San Diego, 1850–1950, by Kyle E. Ciani

Moramay López-Alonso, associate professor of history at Rice University, is an economic historian of Latin America who earned her PhD at Stanford University. Her research focuses on the history of inequality. Her published works include Measuring Up: A History of Living Standards in Mexico, 1850–1950 (2012), winner of the 2013 Mexican History Book Prize awarded by the Conference on Latin American History. She is currently working on day-care provision in twentieth-century Mexico and its implications for working women's participation in political and economic life.